Monday morning stretch

Thanks to E.J. for seeing to the posting of the new podcast. Thanks, guy.

Yes, I was yet asleep. Dreaming, too. The dream? Only between me and whoever else needs to know.

So, what's in the news today for me to rant about? Maybe the un-Christian attitude that is being propagated by the hysteria over lifetime sentences for sex criminals. Lifetime, you say? Hey, at least in jail they are in a frame, but when a man or woman has to be haunted and hunted the rest of their lives because of something that happened, in some cases, decades before, we have lost our way as a civilization. Setting up individuals who have, under the Constitution, paid their debt to society to be targets of harrassment and violence is not meaningful or helpful. By the way, most molested children are victims of family members, not previously convicted strangers, maybe we need to start keeping children away from their own parents, siblings and uncles?

We don't do this sort of thing to thieves or murderers or drug dealers...but that one case of that young man who committed suicide because people abused the law and posted his picture along with the logo "Child Rapist" all over his neighborhood, that grinds. I trust that God will show the same mercy and acceptance of repentance and penance at judgement for those people gloating over his death and pain. They earned it.

Hey, look! Anna Nicole Smith is still dead. And I still don't care. Hundreds have died in Iraq since that tragically messed up young woman died, and many of those who died in Iraq were children, victims of war and American servicemen and women. Shame on all the news outlets for thinking she is more important than those people. Shame.

A guy is claiming his firing by IBM over his internet porn addiction was prejudicial and unfair. I knew a guy who got fired over internet porn addiction. And he was working for this father-in-law. Imagine how humiliating that had to be. Porn and internet and videogame addictions, unless caused by a provable organic source, are not addictions, they're habituations. I worked as an addiction counselor. Don't marginalize those with real brain chemistry and genetic problems by claiming any guy who likes to look at naked pictures is a disabled person requiring legal protection (or, then, of course, we have to consider child molestors "disabled" and offer them protection for the consequences of their behaviors. right?)

Think this through, people.